Listening to Baseball on the Radio

Video Transcript

"And you know what? It doesn't always have to be a visual medium. Many times you can be driving to work or making a six hour drive to someplace else and you can listen to baseball games on the radio. And I'll tell you, radio announcers may be the most knowledgeable people I've ever met in my life because they, a lot of times, have to fill up dead air. And so they've got to be talking to players and scouts and managers and general managers and presidents and owners. They've got to talk to everybody so they can fill up this dead air with stories. And you can learn so much about the game, about the humor of the game, about the seriousness of the game. These guys have families too. Some pitcher's kid just was diagnosed and the kid's autistic. And telling a story about that, you find out that these people are human and it makes you feel like you can connect with them more. And that's why I always found for myself that I learn through radio. I felt like I learned the human side of the game. I felt like the radio announcers were speaking directly to me and that's an important thing. As you develop this love relationship for baseball, radio announcers really can help egg that on. I think it also allows you not to be stuck at home. If you need to be out and about and doing things and running errands, baseball can travel with you. Many times nowadays you can pick up the radio signal on your cellphone. You can pick up the radio signal on your Blackberry. You can pick up a lot of things as you're going out and you can keep track of it. There's a portable radio for a reason. You can take baseball with you wherever you're going. Baseball travels anywhere and radio allows you to do that. In terms of finding your radio station, it can be somewhat difficult. You're dealing with, I don't know, 1700 different AM stations that you've got to finagle your way through. A lot of times the easiest way to do it is just to go to the website and find out what the radio station is. And many times they'll have two or three because depending on the frequency wherever you are, you can pick up a different frequency throughout usually about a six hour, which I think is about a 500 mile, radius of wherever the team is. And so it's very important that you go and look for that information. I know that games can be picked up across the nation on Sirius satellite radio, I believe also on XM. You can find them from wherever you are in the country if you have that service."